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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Life's objective is life itself.
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.
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It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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